| 61901. |
Animal Trivia: While the bones of most airborne birds are hollow for lightness, ---------- are endowed with solid bones for ballast when they dive, sometimes to 850 feet or more.
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| 61902. |
Animal Trivia: The underwater mating song of the ---------- is so loud that sometimes it can be heard by humans on the shore.
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| 61903. |
Animal Trivia: Wildlife biologists estimate that as many as five out of six fawns starve to death during a hard winter in ----------
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| 61904. |
Animal Trivia: With few exceptions, birds do not sing while on the ground. They sing during flight or while sitting on an object off the ----------
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| 61905. |
Animal Trivia: With only a four-week gestation period, a cottontail ---------- can produce 5 to 7 litters, and as many as 35 offspring per year.
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| 61906. |
Animal Trivia: Within the hawk, or birds of prey, family, there are ---------- species - eagles, hawks, kites, and Old World vultures, which are found nearly worldwide.
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| 61907. |
Animal Trivia: Wolf packs could be found in all the forests of Europe, and in 1420 and 1438, wolves roamed the streets of ----------
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| 61908. |
Animal Trivia: ---------- are freeze-tolerant and spend winters frozen on land, only to thaw in the spring and begin their breeding process in vernal ponds.
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| 61909. |
Animal Trivia: You can identify a ---------- bear's mark by the sign of five claws. A black bear will lacerate a tree trunk with four claws.
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| 61910. |
Animal Trivia: You can tell the sex of a horse by its teeth. Most males have 40, females have ----------
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| 61911. |
Animal Trivia: You could milk about ---------- cows per hour by hand, but with modern machinery, you can milk up to 100 cows per hour.
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| 61912. |
Animal Trivia: Young birds such as ducks, geese, and shore birds are born with their ----------
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| 61913. |
Animal Trivia: ----------, like other equids, have three gaits: the walk, the trot, and the gallop.
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| 61914. |
Animal Trivia: Zebus are humped cattle found in India, China, and northern Africa. Zebubs are tsetse-like flies found in ----------
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100 |
| 61915. |
Animal Trivia: A ---------- can lose up to 30 percent of its body weight in perspiration and continue to cross the desert. A human would die of heat shock after sweating away only 12 percent of body weight.
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100 |
| 61916. |
Animal Trivia: A carnivore is a meat-eating animal. A ---------- is a fruit-eating animal.
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| 61917. |
Animal Trivia: A cat has 32 muscles in ----------
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| 61918. |
Animal Trivia: A ---------- keeps purring, no matter if it is inhaling or exhaling, a baffling accomplishment.
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| 61919. |
Animal Trivia: A cat uses its whiskers to determine if a space is too small to squeeze through. The whiskers act as feelers or ----------, helping the animal to judge the precise width of any passage.
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| 61920. |
Animal Trivia: A cat's arching back is part of a complex body language system, usually associated with feeling threatened. The arch is able to get so high because the cat's spine contains nearly 60 vertebrae which fit loosely together. Humans have only ----------
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| 61921. |
Animal Trivia: A cat's ---------- can't move sideways.
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100 |
| 61922. |
Animal Trivia: A ---------- can advance 7 to 8 meters in a single stride, and the animal completes four strides per second. A stride is measured as the distance between successive imprints of the same paw.
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| 61923. |
Animal Trivia: A ---------- will lay bigger and stronger eggs if you change the lighting in such a way as to make them think a day is 28 hours long.
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| 61924. |
Animal Trivia: A cow can't ---------- until she's given birth to a calf.
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| 61925. |
Animal Trivia: A ---------- gives nearly 200,000 glasses of milk in her lifetime.
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| 61926. |
Animal Trivia: A ---------- weighs about 1,400 pounds and eats about 55 pounds of food per day.
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| 61927. |
Animal Trivia: A crocodile can't stick out its ----------
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| 61928. |
Animal Trivia: A ---------- weighing 120 pounds exerts a force of about 1,540 pounds between its jaws. A human being's jaws exert a force of only 40 to 80 pounds.
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1 |
100 |
| 61929. |
Animal Trivia: A dog's ---------- has over 200 scent receiving cells.
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1 |
100 |
| 61930. |
Animal Trivia: A ---------- can remember a specific tone far better than can a human.
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1 |
100 |
| 61931. |
Animal Trivia: A famous stallion will, on retirement, command an impressive stud fee for servicing approved mares. Specialist stud-farms house one or more stallions, each of which is allowed to service about ---------- per season.
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1 |
100 |
| 61932. |
Animal Trivia: A female mouse may spawn as many as ten litters of eight to ten young during her lifetime - which is generally less than a year. The gestation period is three weeks, and the young mice reach maturity in only ----------
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1 |
100 |
| 61933. |
Animal Trivia: A fox litter is typically 10 to 15 ----------
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1 |
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| 61934. |
Animal Trivia: A full-grown ---------- may be 8 feet high at the shoulder and weigh almost a ton.
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1 |
100 |
| 61935. |
Animal Trivia: A ---------- can go without water longer than a camel can.
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1 |
100 |
| 61936. |
Animal Trivia: A giraffe's sticky, black tongue can be more than 18 inches long and is used to gather food into the mouth. Males typically feed with their head and neck at full vertical stretch, often with their tongues extended to reach the shoots on the underside of the mature tree canopy. Females feed at the body or knee height, with their necks ----------
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1 |
100 |
| 61937. |
Animal Trivia: A good milking cow will give nearly 6,000 quarts of ---------- every year.
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1 |
100 |
| 61938. |
Animal Trivia: A group of bees can be called either a hive, a swarm, or a ----------
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1 |
100 |
| 61939. |
Animal Trivia: A group of foxes is called a ----------
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1 |
100 |
| 61940. |
Animal Trivia: A wild cat, known as "the fishing cat" actually swims to catch fish. Called the Bengali Mach-Bagral, nature gave this cat extra-long claws, which it uses like fishhooks. The fishing cat is found in Nepal, Burma, Southern China and parts of ----------
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1 |
100 |
| 61941. |
Animal Trivia: A wolf's odor detecting ability is ---------- times greater than man's.
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100 |
| 61942. |
Animal Trivia: A woodchuck breathes only ten times per hour while ----------, while an active woodchuck breathes 2,100 times an hour.
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1 |
100 |
| 61943. |
Animal Trivia: A young male fur ---------- that is kept from the breeding grounds by the older males is called a bachelor.
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1 |
100 |
| 61944. |
Animal Trivia: About 24 newborn opossums can fit in a teaspoon. They are about .07 ounce at ----------
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1 |
100 |
| 61945. |
Animal Trivia: According to experts, ---------- don't like to head straight for anything. For safety, they may run past and sweep around from the side.
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1 |
100 |
| 61946. |
Animal Trivia: According to several studies, less than 3 percent of the ---------- population become man-eaters.
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100 |
| 61947. |
Animal Trivia: According to the National Wild Turkey Federation, the number of wild turkeys in the U.S. has increased from an all time low of 30,000 to more than 4 million today. One state park in Iowa now boasts more than ---------- turkeys per square mile.
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1 |
100 |
| 61948. |
Animal Trivia: According to zoology experts, there is no real difference between doves and ----------. The choice of name rests almost altogether on custom and geography, although the smaller of the species is, more often than not, called a dove.
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| 61949. |
Animal Trivia: A group of owls is called a ----------
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1 |
100 |
| 61950. |
Animal Trivia: A herd of sixty cows is capable of producing a ton of milk in less than a ----------
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1 |
100 |
| 61951. |
Animal Trivia: A hibernating woodchuck breathes only ten times per hour. An ---------- woodchuck breathes 2,100 times an hour.
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| 61952. |
Animal Trivia: A ---------- can open its mouth wide enough to accommodate a 4-foot-tall child.
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| 61953. |
Animal Trivia: A hippopotamus can run faster than a ----------
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| 61954. |
Animal Trivia: A hippopotamus has a stomach 10 feet long, capable of holding 6 bushels of ----------
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| 61955. |
Animal Trivia: A Holstein cow's spots are like a ---------- or a snowflake; no two cows have exactly the same pattern of spots.
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| 61956. |
Animal Trivia: A horse can sleep ----------
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| 61957. |
Animal Trivia: A ---------- focuses its eye by changing the angle of its head, not by changing the shape of the lens of the eye, as humans do.
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| 61958. |
Animal Trivia: A horseshoe for a full-grown Clydesdale measures more that ---------- inches from end to end and weighs about five pounds. It is more than two times as long and four times as heavy as a shoe worn by a riding horse.
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| 61959. |
Animal Trivia: Adélie ---------- employ yawning as part of their courtship ritual.
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| 61960. |
Animal Trivia: Adult electric eels 5ft to 7ft long produce enough electricity -- 600 volts -- to stun a ----------
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| 61961. |
Animal Trivia: Adult polar bears usually eat just the skin and blubber of a seal. They leave the meat for cubs and scavengers. One seal will sustain an adult bear for ----------
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| 61962. |
Animal Trivia: All cows are females; the males are called ----------
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| 61963. |
Animal Trivia: All mammals have ----------
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| 61964. |
Animal Trivia: Alligators and ---------- have something in common, at least auditorily. They can hear notes only up to 4,000 vibrations a second.
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| 61965. |
Animal Trivia: Almost half the pigs in the world are kept by farmers in ----------
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100 |
| 61966. |
Animal Trivia: Although beavers live near rivers, streams, and lakes - they do not eat fish. Beavers eat only plants. They eat poplar trees, carrots, cattail, mushrooms, potatoes, berries, water plants, swamp wood, and fruit. Soft ---------- is the main food for a beaver.
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100 |
| 61967. |
Animal Trivia: Although manatees are excellent ----------, the deepest that one has been observed diving is 33 feet. Typically, the large, gentle creatures feed no deeper than about ten feet below the surface of the water.
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| 61968. |
Animal Trivia: A jynx is a ----------, also know as the wryneck because of its peculiar habit of twisting its neck.
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| 61969. |
Animal Trivia: A ---------- cannot jump if its tail is lifted off the ground. It needs its tail for pushing off.
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| 61970. |
Animal Trivia: A King Cobra is the biggest of all poisonous snakes and can grow to over 13 feet long. A bite from a King Cobra can kill an elephant in ----------
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| 61971. |
Animal Trivia: A large Caribbean ---------- excretes a ton of sand a year. Using two oversized front teeth, it nibbles on seagrass and scrapes algae. Another set of teeth in its throat grinds up the coral it ingests.
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| 61972. |
Animal Trivia: A ---------- in the wild usually makes no more than 20 kills a year.
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| 61973. |
Animal Trivia: A male baboon can kill a ----------
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| 61974. |
Animal Trivia: A male kangaroo is called a boomer, and a female is called a ----------
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| 61975. |
Animal Trivia: A male ---------- becomes fully feathered when he is three years old, but can mate earlier.
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| 61976. |
Animal Trivia: Cows provide 90 percent of the world's ----------
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| 61977. |
Animal Trivia: Coyotes are extremely loyal to their mates. If one is caught in a trap, the other will bring small game for it to eat; it will soak itself in a river to allow its thirsty mate to chew on its damp fur for water. It has been documented that the free coyote will stay with its captive partner until ----------
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| 61978. |
Animal Trivia: Although the last of the ---------- in captivity died in Hobart in 1935, some may still roam Tasmania's high country. The wolflike marsupial's scientific name, Thylacinus cynocephalus, means "the pouched dog with a wolf head."
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| 61979. |
Animal Trivia: Crabs and other crustaceans can escape danger by simply discarding an injured or trapped ----------
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| 61980. |
Animal Trivia: Americans consume more than 353 million pounds of turkey during National Turkey Lovers' Month (June). By comparison, more than 675 million pounds of turkey will be consumed at ----------
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| 61981. |
Animal Trivia: ---------- eggs which are incubated below 85º F (29.5º C) hatch into females, while those incubated above 95º F (35º C) hatch into males.
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| 61982. |
Animal Trivia: An adult lion's roar can be heard up to five miles away, and warns off intruders or reunites scattered members of the ----------
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| 61983. |
Animal Trivia: ---------- are social birds that congregate in huge flocks. While the flock grazes in a field, lookouts will be posted to watch for approaching danger. They'll raise the alarm if humans approach.
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| 61984. |
Animal Trivia: An adult walrus typically eats about 3,000 ---------- per day.
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| 61985. |
Animal Trivia: ---------- are the smallest breed of dog used for hunting. They are low to the ground, which allows them to enter and maneuver through tunnels easily.
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| 61986. |
Animal Trivia: An ---------- can go through 2,000 to 3,000 teeth in a lifetime.
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100 |
| 61987. |
Animal Trivia: Dead sponges can resist bacterial decay for more than five years when submerged in ----------
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| 61988. |
Animal Trivia: An alpaca is sheared only once every two years and yields only about 5 or 6 pounds of wool at each shearing. Because the yield is so small and the material so desirable, alpaca wool is ----------
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1 |
100 |
| 61989. |
Animal Trivia: Deer have no ----------
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| 61990. |
Animal Trivia: An ---------- is nearly 6 feet long, yet its mouth is only an inch wide.
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| 61991. |
Animal Trivia: Depending on the geographic region, about 30 to 60 percent of all animals brought in to animal shelters in the United States are ----------
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100 |
| 61992. |
Animal Trivia: An average-size ---------- weighs about 150 pounds.
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100 |
| 61993. |
Animal Trivia: Despite man's fear and hatred of the wolf, it has not ever been proved that a non-rabid wolf ever attacked a ----------
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100 |
| 61994. |
Animal Trivia: An eagle can attack, kill, and carry away an animal as large as a young deer. The Harpy eagle of South America feed on ----------
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100 |
| 61995. |
Animal Trivia: An elephant may consume 500 pounds of hay and 60 gallons of water in a ----------
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1 |
100 |
| 61996. |
Animal Trivia: A male pig is a boar. A female pig is a sow. A baby pig is a ----------
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100 |
| 61997. |
Animal Trivia: A marine catfish can taste with any part of its body. The female marine catfish hatches her eggs in her ----------
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100 |
| 61998. |
Animal Trivia: A mated pair of ---------- can produce up to 15,000 babies in one year.
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1 |
100 |
| 61999. |
Animal Trivia: A mother ---------- often gives birth while standing, so the newborn's first experience outside the womb is a 1.8-meter (6-foot) drop. Ouch!
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1 |
100 |
| 62000. |
Animal Trivia: A newborn Chinese water ---------- is so small it can almost be held in the palm of the hand.
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1 |
100 |